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Re: PATCH: Export LC_ALL=C (Re: Sorting in nm and testsuite)

> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
> Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 10:11:46 +0200

> Geoff Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> writes:
> 
> |> [I note, BTW, that whoever made the original change that caused the
> |> problem seems to have forgotten to add a testcase for it; the obvious
> |> testcase is to set LC_ALL=en_US and check that the sort order changes.]
> 
> You can't really test that portably, since locales are implementation
> defined.  Even locale names differ among platforms.

How about doing it only for glibc-based OSs, then?  In practise, if
you can write a test that works under linux, it will be run often
enough that any regressions will be found.

-- 
- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> <geoffk@redhat.com>
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